This thing is over. Kyrie is not coming back to this and no way would AD sign an extension if traded here. They had a good thing going and totally blew it this year. Time to make Tatum the focal point of the team and build around him.
Hindsight. I mean, it's not like Ainge was sitting on his assets all along. He tried to use up some assets to trade up for Winslow for example. He had a deal in place for Paul George, but Pacers GM wouldn't wait until Hayward had signed and backed out of a deal. Sometimes stuff is working against you.
I am sure that Danny is not that confident about Kyrie re-signing when he went with that wedding-metaphor. He's just playing the card he got dealt. Had he traded away Kyrie, he couldn't have built a powerhouse team with either KD or AD + Kyrie. Had a trade fell through, Kyrie would have been mad and left anyway.
Irving is s crazy dude, you cannot take him by his word. Superstar-divas are NOT trustworthy and Ainge knows it.
Heck, if Ainge had known all of this, I am sure he would have traded for Kawhi. He
would not have been much more of a risk to leaving than AD and he didn't expect Sacramento to finally put it all together. Basically everyone thought it was gonna be surefire top 5 pick.
All I know is Danny better does not trade Tatum for a rental AD, with or without Kyrie. It's not worth it losing such a young star for one year of star who may get injured anyway, Davis is not an ironman.
